Photograph of Kiwanis club committee in charge of box social to raise money for war effort. There is a giant poster stating buy war bonds above a picture of globe using the United States and underneath it is a box with War Bond Box Social Sept. 22,...

Front view of a postcard which has an image of a blimp with a group of people gathered underneath of it. The blimp reads Drink Spur on the side and reads Reliance NC-14A on the tail fin. Underneath the picture it reads: Goodyear "Spur" blimp -- 150...

Esther Hollingsworth is a long-time resident of the coal mining community of Universal, Indiana. She was born in 1918 and married Ben Hollingsworth, a coal miner. She is also a gifted storyteller who can make the old days come alive. She and...

Bill Walthall of the Dana area has been making maple syrup for a number of years. He was born in 1914 and says he can't remember when his father didn't make maple syrup. He described some of the techniques involved to Keith Ludden.

Black and white photograph, partially blurred, of eight men posing in a group underneath a tipple at Big Oak Coal Mine in Vermillion County, Indiana. They are standing next to a truck owned by Lawson Coal Company. Another truck in the background...

Black and white photograph of three men and two trucks underneath a tipple at Big Oak Coal Mine in Vermillion County, Indiana. Two men are standing on the truck, and one man is posing in between the trucks.

Black and white photograph showing a tipple at one of the Bunsen coal mines near Universal, Indiana. In this photograph, coal cars loaded with coal sit underneath the tipple, and a mine worker stands in the foreground. These twin coal mines were...

Black and white photograph showing a tipple at one of the Bunsen coal mines near Universal, Indiana. In this photograph, coal cars loaded with coal sit underneath the tipple with mine workers posing next to each car. Each coal car holds coal of a...

Black and white photograph of a structure, possibly the construction of a tipple, at the Crown Hill Mine #6 in Clinton, Indiana, owned by Clinton Coal Company. In the foreground railways run underneath the structure.

Scan of a newspaper article from the Terre Haute Tribune. The newspaper article, titled “Survivors Tell Terror Tale Of Hours In Mine: Hope Almost Abandoned As Air Gives Out And Fire Bars Way; Prayers Of 19 Men Finally Answered”, covers a mine...